I believe someone started the discussion by mentioning that it's "Just a Flag".

 

From Wiki:  A <b>flag</b> is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design that is used as a symbol, as a signaling device, or as decoration.

 

I bolded for emphasis the portion that matters.  This "flag" in discussion is used as a symbol, as a signaling device.  It helps ID racists.  Racists use it as a calling card.   

 

Those that think about it in terms of "southern pride" have the absolute right to think of it as southern pride.  But, unfortunately, it's more than just that.  It's a racist symbol for the vast majority of citizens.

 

When you see the confederate flag, you see racism.  I'm all for people flying it.  It gives me a really quick identification of how those people really think.  Libbies use it as a marker to ID teabaggers...  It may offend you that most people see it as a racist symbol..  It may bother you that most people see it as a racist signaling device.  But one's delicacies don't change the reality.  

 

If a racist wants to fly that flag, let them.  But for all the rationalization a person wants to put on it, it's still racist.  It's a symbol for slavery, for humanities cruelty on man, and it's a signal to others that the person that is hoisting that flag is, at the kindest, an un-educated bigot.  

 

I personally would never socialize with someone that waives that flag around.  But hey, if you want to waive it around, go for it.  A state should never prosecute or impede a racist from flying that around his house, or buying it.  A state should also not keep flying it, since you know.  The south lost.  

 

Oh and the south shall never rise again.  Those people need to realize that.  The country is getting browner, it is getting less white over time. 

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